So, I stopped in at The Towne Cycles this afternoon, after riding around Oakland checking out some apartments. One of the coolest shops in the East Bay, to which you should go and at which you should spend a little bread, because they're good people who deserve it.
Sitting in the counter / display case was this shiny little piece of French loveliness:
A TA centerpull-mount front rack. Since I have a French bike with centerpulls, and since my long-term plan is to make a pretty French randonneuse out of it. (A OG-matching paint job is in the future, as the '81 blue & orange Peugeot paint jobs are among my favorites, and the PKN-10 was available that way.)
There seems to be no consensus on whether these things work with Weinmann calipers, which is what's on the bike now. If anyone's done it, a link to a write-up would be most appreciated. I searched, but vBulletin's excerable search function pukes on two-letter strings, and Google's "site:www.bikeforums.net" isn't a huge win either.
Sure is a pretty lil' thang, ain't it!
Thanks,
--Shannon